Doing the groundwork? transferring a UK environmental planning approach to Japan

Parker, Gavin; Murayama, Meiko

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“…Over the last two decades, there has been considerable effort to develop the Groundwork model in Japan. However, as Parker and Murayama (2005) show, Groundwork in Japan has had only limited success in attracting financial support and breaking down the boundaries dividing government, private industry, and civil society.…”

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Refueling Satoyama Woodland Restoration in Japan: Enhancing Restoration Practice and Experiences through Woodfuel Utilization

Terada¹,

Yokohari²,

Bolthouse³

et al. 2010

Nature and Culture

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Urban and peri-urban satoyama woodlands have become focal points of restoration throughout Japan. Prior to the abrupt shift to fossil fuels in the 1950-60s, villages coppiced these woods to produce a sustainable supply of wood fuel, a process that also sustained a dynamic woodland structure rich in biodiversity. Currently, amidst a "satoyama renaissance," thousands of volunteer groups are restoring management to abandoned woods. Yet while volunteers are the main drivers of the satoyama renaissance, volunteer management tends to be limited in spatial extent and focused on the "parkification" of woodlands. Through a case study of four satoyama restoration scenarios we found that reintroduction of coppicing for wood fuel-"refueling"-can play a role in addressing climate change through fossil fuel substitution. We suggest that this literal refueling of satoyama restoration could, in a more metaphorical sense, help to refuel restoration efforts by strengthening both restoration practice and the authenticity of restoration experiences. KEYWORDSbiomass, climate change, satoyama woodlands, urban ecological restoration ᮄ "Cities" have long been seen as the antithesis of "nature." Yet over the last few decades the conceptual wall partitioning the natural from the urban has been attacked and appears to have been finally breached. This storming of the nature/culture divide has come from many directions, but one key thrust has been to work through this dualism by bringing meta-concepts such as ecosystem and ecology, long the domain of people who theorize about pristine wildlands, to bear on urban environments. With this conceptual progress well established, we can now turn to the more substantive task of improving the quality of urban ecologies. The importance of this task cannot be overstated, for Nature and Culture 5(3), Winter 2010: 251-276 © Berghahn Journals

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Refueling Satoyama Woodland Restoration in Japan: Enhancing Restoration Practice and Experiences through Woodfuel Utilization

Terada¹,

Yokohari²,

Bolthouse³

et al. 2010

Nature and Culture

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“…The issues of shrinking cities and abandonment of facilities, such as complex housing, are discussed in relation to the living environment of elderly residents in urban areas [55,56]. Recent urban, community-based initiatives, such as Groundwork in the United Kingdom [57,58] or Machizukuri (participatory planning process) in Japan [59], are exemplary communal initiatives that aim to create social ties by enhancing citizens' participation in city and neighborhood planning [60]. These bottom-up and autonomous approaches in community design enable the community members to address the demands of older residents.…”

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Population Aging: An Emerging Research Agenda for Sustainable Development

2015

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In recent years, population aging has been recognized as an emerging challenge in many parts of the world. Earlier studies discussed its impacts on the sustainability of social security systems and national economic growth; however, they tended to focus on the issues at the national level and were limited to developed countries. With the knowledge that population aging will be a predominant trend in both developed and developing countries, this paper aims to: (i) describe the global population aging trend and its regional demography; (ii) provide a structural review of population aging challenges at the national, communal and individual levels; and (iii) elaborate future research topics on population aging with a particular emphasis on developing countries. Several indicators suggest rapid population aging in the coming decades, especially in Asia, Latin America and Africa. The structural review presents the diverse challenges that affect both young and older population groups. Finally, the need for linking population aging with the sustainable development concept and the possible rural decline caused by rapid urbanization are suggested as future research topics. Further studies to establish a body of knowledge on population aging in developing countries are required to place population aging on the agenda of future sustainable development discussions.

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“…In many industrial cities, for example, local government has traditionally acted paternalistically as a local provider of welfare services, with limited participative structures (Cochrane, 1993), whereas in other places, local politics has been characterised by direct community mobilisation and interaction (see Imrie and Raco, 1999). Some authorities have used less deliberative or inclusionary processes such as limited consultation exercises or, alternatively, processes of public engagement have been channelled into parallel or distanced structures such as Local Agenda 21 (LA21) (Buckingham-Hatfield and Percy, 1999;Doak, 1998) or partnership projects such as Groundwork (Fordham et al, 2002;Parker and Murayama, 2005). CSs are designed to supersede these differences and to create a uniform process although, as Shaw (2004) argues, this may have the effect that CSs become``essentially aspatial in nature ... [and] lack local distinctiveness.…”

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Reshaping Spaces of Local Governance? Community Strategies and the Modernisation of Local Government in England

Raco

Parker

Doak

2006

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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The preparation of Community Strategies (CS) has been required of Local Strategic Partnerships and local authorities in England since the passing of the Local Government Act 2000. The authors examine the process and content of two CSs in southern England as part of an ongoing project to understand their impact and explore ways in which CSs may be prepared in a meaningful and effective manner. They critically evaluate a number of dimensions of CS formulation, including: the important role of local political and cultural context; the extent to which they reflect and reproduce a shift from representational to participatory forms of democracy; the impact of national policy agendas; the role of place identity; the relative influence of local government officers and members; and the dynamics and implications of particular forms of conflict mediation and consensus building. They conclude that the process of CS formation studied illustrates the tensions and opportunities contained within the Labour government's modernisation agenda. Governmentalities of active citizenship and participatory democracy mingle with more representational and managerial modes of local governance, creating hybrid structures, processes, and outcomes that shape the process of strategy formulation. All this is set within a context of a dynamic and variable set of place identities and pervasive resource (inter)dependencies which both close down and open up the range of issues and interests that are drawn into the process of CS formulation.

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Doing the groundwork? transferring a UK environmental planning approach to Japan

Abstract: The paper examines the transfer and operation of the UK Groundwork (GW) model in Japan and sets out the development of GW in the UK since the early 1980s.

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Refueling Satoyama Woodland Restoration in Japan: Enhancing Restoration Practice and Experiences through Woodfuel Utilization

Refueling Satoyama Woodland Restoration in Japan: Enhancing Restoration Practice and Experiences through Woodfuel Utilization

Population Aging: An Emerging Research Agenda for Sustainable Development

Reshaping Spaces of Local Governance? Community Strategies and the Modernisation of Local Government in England

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